Word: se
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PLATERO AND I (218 pp.)-Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Eloïse Roach-University of Texas...
Tenuous Transition. More than a quarter of a century ago, Eloïse Roach fell in love with Poet Jiménez' best-loved book, Platero and I, determined to translate it. Many experts in Spanish literature (including Jiménez himself and his late wife), thought that the book's 138 prose poems were too delicate to make the transition to English. But in 1935 Teacher Roach traveled to Madrid and begged the shy, ailing Jiménez to look at the beginning she had made. Sitting on a couch together, the poet and his wife began...
...schools; and the competitive bidding carried on by science and industry for top graduates. These are only the more obvious forces which compelled students toward a more serious concern with academic life, although it might be argued that the concern was more pre-professional in nature than academic per se...
...published sermons and books, such as Peace with God, contain false doctrines, sometimes false in se, at other times false by being incomplete. They fall within the scope of the Index." ¶ "Catholics should not tune in on Billy's radio and television programs. So well constructed are his sermons, so interwoven is true and false doctrine, so forceful and persuasive is his delivery, that even a fairly well instructed Catholic may be deceived...
...films for the Government. He does his 10-to-45-minute shorts at the rate of about 20 a year (at a cost to the sponsor of $50,000 to $300,000 each) for such varied industrial giants as General Electric (A Is for Atom), United Fruit (Bananas? Si, Señor), American Telephone & Telegraph (The Voice Beneath the Sea), Du Pont (The Spray's the Thing), the New York Stock Exchange (What Makes Us Tick). Sutherland gets his client's point of view across with suave indirection. He has found it no easy job persuading tycoons that...